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Happy Pride my darlings

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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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You know you are too much of a stationery buff when reading about how a field scientist lost their notes because their notebook fell in the water and you blame them for their pen choices.

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Today’s Farmers Market included street tacos and a guy playing a violin like it was a mandolin.

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I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because: 1) AI detection tools are themselves AI and thus entirely bullshit; and 2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!

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Morning walk drama: a kestrel(?) in a spat with a small murder of crows

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Protest checklist: phone Biometrics disabled emergency contact written on arm determination to stand for what’s right #nokings

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1. The US Transgender Survey has finally been released, and the results are stunning. - <1% of people are less satisfied after HRT. - The most common reason for detransition, pausing transition, or stopping transition is transphobia. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Looking for PRIDE books that aren’t about being queer? Here are some I’ve recently read. ‘Mimicking of Known Successes’ by Malka Older @older.bsky.social ‘Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea’ by Rebecca Thorne @rebeccathorne.bsky.social Any other recommendations? #happypride🌈 #booksky 📚

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Get ready for Saturday by watching the @aclu.org’s “Know Your Rights” training to help keep all of our #NoKings Day events safe and non-violent.

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I just finished “Melissa” by Alex Gino and I cannot recommend it enough. It may be aimed at 9-13, but I recommend to anyone. Warning: I cried. #happypride

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You can track how many kitchen projects I’m working on based on how clean the floor is #brewing #imamess

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Happy Pride! I wanted to share a book I thought expressed some of my experiences as a member of the Rainbow Community: Riveted by Meljean Brook 🏳️‍🌈 🩷💜💙 📖

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The man remains truly excellent and this is going to be amazing www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...

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The most annoying part of circle skirts is how big and curved the hem is. 🪡

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Hey #sewingthreads When planning your pockets, what do you use to make sure they are big enough? I was thinking a kindle or mass market paperback book.

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Friendly reminder: The Squint is not a substitute for eye protection while using power tools. Sincerely, someone very grateful they remembered their safety glasses #PublicServiceAnnouncement

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The difference between a antagonist and a villain? I think I’m going with a villain is someone who is intentionally hurting people and an antagonist is someone who is striving for a goal counter to the protagonist. #writing

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Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle. Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.

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I’ve created a Flashes account for my photos. Of you like pictures of dogs, knitting, plants, and assorted other endeavors, check it out!

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Because Pratchett knew what the problem is.

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Booked my first vacation in years. It’s only one day, but it’s on @amtrak.com. So excited!

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OK, Scansion Bluesky, please find attached a complete map of all U.S. states that can be sung perfectly to Phantom Planet’s “California” (2002) or Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” (1974) or John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (1971) or Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma” (1943)

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All four corners of Bainbridge Island’s ferry intersection full for today’s May Day Protest 📎

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Balcony flower update from the PNW 🌱

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Not realizing that Deadpool & Wolverine is the feel good a** kicking movie I needed right now. . Do you think X-men qualifies as DEI and are they going to have to rewrite Magneto’s origin story?

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“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.” — Terry Pratchett, in "Jingo" 🌱📷

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Today’s flowers brought to you by a PNW balcony garden. Also, after weeding a family member’s garden, I still haven’t gotten my nails clean. 🌱

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When your impromptu decision to make your socks knee high results in jumping in too soon and you didn’t remember to drop in a life line 🧶🫠

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Was clearing out my pots and realized these are last year’s snapdragons! Did someone forget to tell them they are supposed to be annuals? 🌱

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“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.” - Pablo Picasso 🌱

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Weirdest conspiracy theory I was told today: we all have parasites because ‘things’ and therefore must eat deworming pumpkin seeds daily

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Lewelyn Dixon, a lab technician who has lived in the U.S. for 50 years and is a green card holder, is being held at an ICE detention center in Tacoma.

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If they won't lift em up We will Sgt William Carney Escaping slavery Sgt Carney volunteered in the union army. At the battle of Fort Wagner, after every member of the color guard was killed and despite being shot four times Wagner led the charge. He received the medal of honor on May 23 1900

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I think the thing that bugs me the most about the anti-vax argument is the idea you would rather have your child die of measles than be autistic.

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How to make sure immigrants don’t file taxes.

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There is concern in the food safety field said Darin Detwiler, a food safety consultant. “His toddler son died in an E. coli outbreak in 1993. “It’s as if someone, without enough information, has said, What’s a good way to save money on our automobiles?” he asked. “Let’s just take out the seatbelts”

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Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump’s Latest Executive Order “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court.”

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The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

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WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.

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I know military training includes things like, you must not obey an illegal order. Does ICE not have similar rules?

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One of my favorite plot irrelevant parts of “Fierce Creatures” is the woman who just constantly carries around cute fuzzy baby creatures. #movienight

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